Christopher Luxon and a delegation of high-profile Kiwis are visiting Samoa this week.

When the tangi of a rival gang member was held in Mob territory, they hatched a plan.

The cheese may contain Listeria, which can cause serious illness.

Acts like Six60, Fly My Pretties and The Datsuns drew big, energetic crowds.

A teenage boy has been arrested and charged after an allegedly stolen car rollover killed a teen in Melbourne's south west.

The 17-year-old was charged with culpable driving causing death and other driving offences and remanded in custody to face a children's court, police announced this morning.

It comes after a grey Skoda sedan full of seven teenagers allegedly crashed on Derrimut Road in Hoppers Crossing about 12am on Friday.

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A 15-year-old boy was ejected from the car and died at the scene.

A 16-year-old girl, who was in the front seat, broke both her legs. She remains in the hospital today and is expected to be interviewed.

Two more occupants, a 16-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy, were both arrested.

The girl was released after being interviewed.

The boy was interviewed at hospital and being arrested, but his arrest is not related to the collision.

The other two people who were in the car fled and have not been found.

The Skoda allegedly followed a Toyota after an incident at the Tarneit Central Shopping Centre on Friday.

Police alleged the people inside a Toyota felt intimidated and rang Triple Zero, who advised they drive to the nearest police station. 

They allegedly began increasing their speed to get away from the Skoda, which sped up to 180 km/h to chase the Toyota on Derrimut Road.

The Skoda allegedly rammed the rear and crashed into two other cars before rolling into a front yard.

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"This is not a PlayStation game where you can hit reset and start again. This is real lives, real situations that cannot be undone," Detective Inspector Craig McEvoy said at a press conference on Friday.

Investigations are ongoing and anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers.

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US President Donald Trump says he was not expecting Iran to target its Middle Eastern neighbours, despite the Islamic Republic threatening retaliation for the United States' attacks on Kharg Island.

Yesterday, the USA conducted strikes against military targets on the island, which is where 90 per cent of Iran's oil is exported from.

Iran reacted strongly, claiming the USA used "ports, docks and hideouts" in the nearby United Arab Emirates – claims denied by the UAE – to carry out the strikes, and promising retaliation.

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Iran warned residents in areas where it claimed the USA is sheltering forces and equipment in the UAE, including sites in both Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

It was the first time Iran has directly threatened non-US assets since the war began over two weeks ago.

Kuwait's main airport was also hit by an Iranian strike.

Trump said he was surprised by Iran's retaliation, with the UAE, Qatar and Iraq all being hit overnight, including a strike on the US Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq.

"I was very surprised," he told NBC News.

"[It was] the biggest surprise I had of this whole thing."

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Israel has also reported more Iranian strikes on Tel Aviv in the early hours of Sunday morning, local time.

US Central Command said it had no response to Iran's claim that it launched strikes from the UAE. A diplomatic adviser to the UAE's president, Anwar Gargash, said on social media the country has the right to defend itself but "still prioritises reason and logic, and continues exercising restraint."

Iran has fired hundreds of missiles and drones at Arab Gulf neighbours during the war, but it has said it was targeting US assets, even as strikes hit or were intercepted en route to civilian infrastructure such as airports and oil fields.

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On Saturday, Iran's joint military command reiterated its threat to attack US-linked "oil, economic and energy infrastructures" in the region if its own such infrastructure was hit.

Iran's semiofficial Fars news agency said the Kharg Island strikes caused no damage to oil infrastructure.

It said they targeted an air defence facility, a naval base, the airport control tower and an offshore oil company's helicopter hangar.

US Central Command said it destroyed naval mine storage facilities, missile storage bunkers and other military sites.

Israel earlier announced another wave of strikes in Iran targeting infrastructure, and said its air force had hit more than 200 targets in the past 24 hours, including missile launchers, defence systems and weapons production sites.

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Three more players from the Iranian women's football team who were granted asylum in Australia over fears for their safety have decided to return home, leading to Iranian media mocking what it has labelled a "disgraceful failure".

The team was branded "traitors" by the Islamic regime after they refused to sing the Iranian national anthem before their Women's Asian Cup game on the Gold Coast

The federal government organised humanitarian visas for six members of the team and a support staffer – one of whom later had a change of heart and decided to return to Iran.

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Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said three more have similarly reversed their decision overnight and will join the rest of their team to return to Iran.

Iranian media has identified the trio as Mona Hamoudi, Zahra Sarbali and Zahra Meshkinkar.

"After telling Australian officials they had made this decision, the players were given repeated chances to talk about their options," Burke said in a statement this morning.

"While the Australian government can ensure that opportunities are provided and communicated, we cannot remove the context in which the players are making these incredibly difficult decisions.

"The Australian government has done everything we could to make sure these women were provided with the chance for a safe future in Australia.

"Australians should be proud that it was in our country that these women experienced a nation presenting them with genuine choices and interacted with authorities seeking to help them."

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The Tasnim News Agency, which is linked to the Iranian regime, said the three are "returning to the warm embrace of their family and homeland".

"The disgraceful failure of the American-Australian project and another failure for Trump," it said in a statement.

"Mona Hamoudi, Zahra Sarbali and Zahra Meshkinkar, two players and a member of the technical staff of the national women's football team, have withdrawn their asylum application in Australia and are currently leaving for Malaysia and returning to the warm embrace of their family and homeland.

"This is while previously, Mohaddeseh Zolfi, another player of our country's national women's football team, with her heart for the homeland and the Iranian flag, rejected the offer to stay in Australia and decided to return to Iran.

"The national spirit and patriotism of the Iranian women's national football team girls defeated the enemy's plans against this team, which had been widely reflected in the hostile media with numerous projections."

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Iran is known to put pressure on family members back home to target their citizens across the world, according to political scientist Simon Jackman.

"At the end of the day, it's what's in the minds of these young women who are in an impossible situation," he told Today.

"The best-intended elements of our government are doing the best they can, even though it is a deeply personal decision, weighing up what they may be being back channelled to them when they get on the phone and talk to mum and dad or extended family back home.

"You cannot imagine what that must be like for a young woman in a country a long way from home, just immense pressure."

The team arrived in Australia for the Women's Asian Cup last month before the joint US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran began on February 28.

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But their failure to sing their national anthem sparked concerns around Australia that they could face retaliation upon their arrival in Iran. 

US President Donald Trump joined the call for the federal government to intervene and help them. 

Behind the scenes, Burke and his department had travelled to Brisbane to speak with the women separately via a translator and learned that an initial five players out of the 26 players wanted to remain in Australia.

Federal police moved them to a secret location and they were granted humanitarian visas, while the remaining group flew out of Sydney on March 9.

Another player and a staff member later also accepted asylum, one of whom later chose to return to Iran.

After three more had a change of heart overnight, only three Iranian footballers who have claimed asylum are left in Australia. 

– With Associated Press

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Australians could be spending hundreds more a month due to the war in Iran, as Treasurer Jim Chalmers warned already-high inflation may climb towards five per cent. 

Chalmers is factoring in increasing oil prices into the May federal budget and said current estimates have the current 3.8 per cent inflation rate surging even further past the two to three per cent target.

"We've run a couple of scenarios which make it clear on some realistic assumptions about global oil prices and how that would potentially flow through to inflation and for how long," he told Sky News.

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"If we were putting pencils down on those forecasts today, we'd have inflation peaking somewhere between the mid to high fours."

Chalmers, however, brushed off expectations of a recession, and laid out plans for the upcoming budget.

"The budget will be focused on the inflation challenge, the productivity challenge and economic global uncertainty," he said.

"At least two of those three have been dialled up quite considerably in the last fortnight." 

The federal and state governments have called emergency roundtables to discuss how the increased price of fuel could cause flow-on effects from retailers and distributors to consumers.

"Shipping companies are rightfully nervous at the moment, and as long as they're nervous, the markets are nervous, people are buying fuel and at an increased rate," Nine political editor Charles Croucher told Today.

"It all serves to push up prices even further beyond all that."

The global conflict will form part of the discussion when the Reserve Bank meets next week to set the interest rates.

All four of the big banks have tipped that there will be another rate increase. 

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Croucher said this could leave the average person paying an estimated $220 more a month on rising home loans, fuel and groceries. 

The war in Iran has entered its third week, cutting off the Strait of Hormuz that typically allows one-fifth of the world's oil supply to pass through to markets.

US President Donald Trump has declared he has "beaten and decimated" Iran in the same breath he called for other countries to help secure the Strait of Hormuz.

He said the conflict should be over soon, but warned that it could continue longer if necessary.

The International Energy Agency has agreed to the largest release of 400 million barrels of oil from its emergency reserves in history due to the supply disruptions on the Strait of Hormuz.

Australia, which imports 90 per cent of its oil, has also released 20 per cent of its petrol and diesel reserves to help areas experiencing low supply.

Energy Minister Chris Bowen this week confirmed the country has 1.6 billion litres of petrol, 2.7 billion litres of diesel and 800 million litres of jet fuel available – translating to 37 days' worth of petrol, 30 days of diesel and 29 days of jet fuel.

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US President Donald Trump has called on several other countries to send ships to the Middle East to open the Strait of Hormuz and ease the global oil supply disruptions brought on by his war in Iran.

The Strait of Hormuz is a critical but narrow waterway in the Gulf region through which ships carrying one-fifth of the world's oil supply pass. It has all but shut due to the war in Iran.

Trump today declared he has "beaten and completely decimated Iran, both militarily, economically, and in every other way", but in the same breath asked countries to help secure the 39-kilometre-wide passage. 

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"We have already destroyed 100 per cent of Iran's military capability, but it's easy for them to send a drone or two, drop a mine, or deliver a close-range missile somewhere along, or in, this waterway, no matter how badly defeated they are," he said in a Truth Social post.

"Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others, that are affected by this artificial constraint, will send ships to the area so that the Hormuz Strait will no longer be a threat by a nation that has been totally decapitated.

"In the meantime, the United States will be bombing the hell out of the shoreline, and continually shooting Iranian Boats and Ships out of the water. One way or the other, we will soon get the Hormuz Strait OPEN, SAFE, and FREE!"

The US will be coordinating with affected countries to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. 

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It comes just a day after the US bombed Kharg Island – Iran's coral outcrop that produces 90 per cent of the country's oil supply, or 950 million barrels, each year.

Trump said he has only struck military targets and left oil infrastructure unharmed, but warned that he will "immediately reconsider" if ships are not allowed to pass safely through the Strait of Hormuz.

In response to the call to help, the UK Defence Ministry said: "We are currently discussing with our allies and partners a range of options to ensure the security of shipping in the region."

France is also trying to secure the Strait of Hormuz, but Defence Minister Catherine Vautrin told France24 that "there is no question of sending any vessels" to the area.

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The Strait of Hormuz carries oil and gas from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Iran to markets in Asia, including Iran's main customer, China.

While there are limited options for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to avoid the passage, most have no alternate route.

The Islamic regime has vowed to block the region's oil exports, saying it would not allow "even a single litre" to be shipped to its enemies.

The Strait of Hormuz's closure has disrupted oil supply across the world, causing prices to surge to $US100 per barrel.

Fuel prices are feared to only increase, with prices at the pump exceeding $2 across Australia.

The International Energy Agency has agreed to the largest release of 400 million barrels of oil from its emergency reserves in history due to the supply disruptions on the Strait of Hormuz.

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Australia, which imports 90 per cent of its oil, has also released 20 per cent of its petrol and diesel stock to help areas experiencing low supply.

Energy Minister Chris Bowen this week confirmed the country has 1.6 billion litres of petrol, 2.7 billion litres of diesel and 800 million litres of jet fuel available – translating to 37 days' worth of petrol, 30 days of diesel and 29 days of jet fuel.

Political scientist Simon Jackson said Australia is at the end of the fuel supply chain and suggested there could be more pain.

"The game theory element of this is Iran could be holding back, digging in for protracted conflict, because the longer that they can make this thing go, the more pain comes onto the West through what's happening," he told Today. 

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The roads may be filled with hybrid cars and weary travellers avoiding the skies this Easter as global oil disruption sends petrol and jet fuel prices soaring.

The Easter long weekend is now just three weeks away and as the conflict in the Middle East rages on, the humble April road trip could look a little different this year.

Petrol at the bowser is now over $2.20 per litre for E10 and over $2.60 for diesel.

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Petrol was, on average, just below $1.85 per litre in April last year.

Jet fuel prices are driving up domestic airfares in Australia across multiple routes too.

The most affordable return economy flights on the busiest route of Sydney to Melbourne during the peak Easter period are around $400-$500 on Qantas, Jetstar and Virgin.

East Coast Car Rentals chief marketing officer Ben Whitmore said these prices may push many Aussie travellers to stick to the roads for the Easter break.

"A lot of people have pre-booked their Easter travel and flights. If they have, they're lucky," he said.

"If they're not, they probably will be paying a premium.

"The demand [for cars] is still coming in pretty fast. It may come in even faster if people are opting for that self-drive holiday rather than flying,"

But if you're taking to the roads, Whitmore said a tank of fuel is still likely to be around $25 more expensive than it was before the war began.

If you fill up twice, that's an extra $50 tacked onto the price of your holiday.

"Diesel seems to be affected the most, which for our industry and rental cars, we don't have a great deal of diesels on fleet," he added.

"Where it will probably count the most is in some of the regional areas.

"If people are having Easter road trips out to more regional areas, I think the prices will be higher."

Some regional tourism operators fear the shortage crisis will result in lost revenue over the busy Easter period.

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Business NSW chief executive Daniel Hunter said bowsers running dry in rural areas has spooked travellers into cancelling.

"A regional tourist park operator told us they are starting to see cancellations and hesitation from visitors worried they will not be able to refuel," Hunter said.

"That is lost revenue for regional communities that depend on tourism. It's important that our holiday plans continue to sustain our visitor economies, particularly in the lead up to the Easter long weekend."

Hybrid cars could be the key to avoiding the sting at the bowser.

Sales of hybrid vehicles jumped to nearly 200,000 cars in 2025.

Whitmore predicts some savvy travellers will book rental cars which are either EV or hybrid models as Easter approaches.

"If it were me, where possible, I'd probably be looking for a hybrid at the moment," Whitmore added.

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